Tesla Auto-Immolates – What About The Children?
Well, this is toasty!
Video has surfaced of a parked Tesla Model 3 erupting into flames. These things can kill even when they aren't moving, apparently.
This is a dubious "first."
There have been...
Just Because I Said So
A reader informs me that Pennsylvania is about to do what most other states already do: Empower local armed government workers to use radar to entrap "speeders." In PA - at...
Cosseted Cavemen
The Titanic could have used more lifeboats.
A current cruise liner, laser welded and multiply redundant, could probably do without any - because sinking is improbable and help isn’t hours away in...
“Expanding the Market”
Language is everything - because language is thought.
Get people to accept a given meaning and their thinking follows. This includes inventing new meanings, the opposite of the original meaning.
Obvious examples include...
Old Still Sells
I've often wondered whether people would buy a new vehicle available without all the new stuff - especially the over-the-top electronic nannying stuff but also just over-the-top stuff generally, including such...
White Spaces and Write Crime
Some of you may have noticed the huge blank spaces on the site. This is my punishment for publishing "dangerous and derogatory" material; articles such as The Turbo Tax - which...
Car Buying Counsel for a Teenager
Kid I know is contemplating something he shouldn't be thinking about doing at this point in his life - and it has nothing to do with girls.
He is thinking about buying...
2019 Mazda CX-5
Mazda is one of the few remaining car companies that hasn't slurped up the EV Kool Aid. It is upping the IC ante in the new CX-5 - which gets a...
Road Sign “Assist”
Here's a look at a piece of automated driving tech that's beginning to pop up in new cars - Road Sign Assist. When paired with Intelligent Speed Assist (just mandated by...
Orange Mordita
Trump rode a wave of average man outrage into the Oval Office. But the Orange Man could be swept out of it just as easily if he pursues what he has...